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This is your regular reminder that https://dave.io/todo exists.

The MS now has temporal lobe involvement and it’s fucked my memory even worse than before.

If you want me to do something, this is the way to get it done.

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New doofer! Dedicated terminal monitor.

It's just a monitor with a 1920x720 resolution, but I've got my terminal fullscreened on it.

So useful.

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Say it with me

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It's always happened, but with the MS decline I am 'losing words' ALL THE TIME now. It's pretty hard to deal with, I value my ability to express myself.

Anyway, I realised that with Warp's AI integration, I can just ask my terminal now. I wanted 'abstract' and pow.

Backdoor accessibility :D

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the telly has had enough of your shit, Vasya

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Spotted at my parents’ place. I mean… I agree, but there has to be a story behind this.

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BEHOLD. The Donald Trump Interpersonal Relations Flowchart. I will not be taking questions.

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I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, but I've previously worked there, and they really are good people. If they're doing this, I believe that I can know that they're forced into it (the reasons for which I can't know) and will make it as minimally awful as possible.

But the really important part - and like all the rest of this post, you can believe me or not - is that I wholeheartedly believe that they will be transparent about any shenanigans going on.

The way I see it, even a browser with a little bit of ick is still leaps and bounds beyond the survellance machines that are Chrome, Edge, and Opera.

Maybe you agree with me, maybe you don't. I'm not really concerned about what side you come down on - notice that I've only talked about what I believe for myself in this post. I just wanted to weigh in as someone who while not on the inside, has a bit more experience than the average with Mozilla and how they operate.

Interesting Update on Firefox

So Firefox has introduced Terms of Use.

Of note:

This was pointed out updated in the Privacy Policy:

We use technical data, language preference, and location to serve content and advertising on the Firefox New Tab page in the correct format (i.e. for mobile vs desktop), language, and relevant location. Mozilla collects technical and interaction data, such as the position, size, views and clicks on New Tab content or ads, to understand how people are interacting with our content and to personalize future content, including sponsored content. This data may be shared with our advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

Additionally, you can have a look at their Github changes here, which shows something else interesting:

Mozilla has deleted the lines "Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

Another commit shows another removal of a line that notes that Firefox doesn't sell personal data

bedrock/firefox/templates/firefox/faq.html Old: Yep! The { -brand-name-firefox-browser } is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it, and we don’t sell your personal data. New: Yep! The { -brand-name-firefox-browser } is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it.

Scrolling further down, you can see a response to a comment questioning it

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My main problem with dying is not seeing what we become.

I firmly believe that over a long enough timeline - including the scenario where we blow ourselves up, and have to recover for thousands of years - we're going to be stellar.

Just tragic that our ten-year-scale fluctuations hurt so many people.

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These people go off about transing kids. They say "well my kid thinks they're Optimus Prime". But no. That's not it at all. But you're actually closer than you think.

It's not about forcing a child to be trans, just like it's not about forcing a kid to be Optimus Prime. It's about letting them explore that as a part of their identity, and see what sticks. Chances are they don't think they're a giant robot for very long. But things that are plausible - they can take longer to process.

You know what most kids who are allowed and supported in exploration of their gender turn out to be? Cis. But wouldn't you rather that your kid got the chance to try to figure it out for themselves? What harm is really done by calling them by their chosen pronouns - until they change them, or they don't?

The answer is none. Cis kids will eventually decide that they're cis. Trans kids won't, and that's the point at which you know that you can start thinking about how to take them through the process - a process from which they can walk it back at any time.

Nobody is doing surgery on kids. Hell, most ADULTS have to wait years and years before they can get permission from multiple mental health authorities to control their own body. Puberty blockers, too, are very rare. But they are also entirely reversible when you stop taking them. Which the child, teen, adult can choose to do at any time.

Trans people are not a threat to you.

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waves walking stick you kids today with your LLMs and your GPTs, back in my day we had Markov chains and we liked it falls over, demands nurse

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Democrats are simply not doing enough to combat Trump. And don't sit there and say this is Kamala Harris' fault, that's racist, oversimplified bullshit. She tried, you let her down.

Anyway. One thing that did make me laugh was the naming of this bill.

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fish

Coming back to the noise I was making about fish, I've published my fish configuration, which might be useful or interesting to some of you.

It's no good directly copying it, a lot of the setup is specific to me, but you can definitely grab some useful stuff out of it.

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weapons-grade clowntown is occurring

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My mum is so good. This is some weapons-grade boomerposting. But it's always, always the ones that aren't dunking on any marginalised groups, or even earnest 'kids of today' nonsense.

It is - incredibly, unthinkably - actually possible. Who knew.

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This... is real

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remembering this image today for two reasons

that time I met arnie, that was pretty cool

once upon a time you could wear a dogecoin hoodie because it was a big joke instead of a tacit endorsement of literal fascism